Allan Burns worked on a lot of prime-time situation comedies you've heard of like The Munsters, He & She, Get Smart, Room 222 and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In fact, he co-created a couple of those. But before he got into that line of work, he got his first job working in television by writing for Jay Ward.
This is an excerpt from his long, long interview for The Archive of American Television. It covers his time with Ward and he gets one or two things wrong…like, Dudley Do-Right was not on the original Rocky and His Friends show before it morphed into The Bullwinkle Show on Sunday evening on NBC. But it's still worth your attention…